Japanese hotel staffed by ROBOTS features motion-sensing dinosaurs

Robots are no strangers to the Japanese, but the sight of a motion-sensing dinosaur greeting you at the reception of a hotel is likely to startle even the most ardent automaton aficionado. It might be one the weirdest check-in experiences possible, but that's exactly the point at the Henn na chain - whose name means'weird' - which bills itself as offering the world's first hotels with mechanical staff. The first Henn na Hotel opened in Nagasaki in 2015, and was certified the following year by Guinness World Records as the world's first hotel with robots on its staff. The travel agency group that operates the chain now runs eight hotels across the country, all with robots on the staff, some of them dinosaurs, but others taking a more humanoid shape. Robots are no strangers to the Japanese, but the sight of a motion-sensing dinosaur (pictured) greeting you at the reception of a hotel is likely to startle even the most ardent automaton aficionado.